Building your own Web Site on the Internet
This page offer a wide range of links to sites on the Internet with information to assist you in learning how to build web pages, illustrate them, include music or sounds, check your code, add a counter to a page, include a Guest Book and suggestions to promote your presentation worldwide. At the end are some more advanced topics. We hope you find something here that links you to what you seek. Below is a menu to this page. Click on a topic and it will "jump" down to that area or just scroll and read. The up-arrow "graphic" at the top of each topic below will bring you back to this menu.
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HTML Technical Help - Links
To assist those interested in designing web pages, here is a list of links that we know will be helpful and almost always user friendly (once you get acquainted with the jargon).
CERN's Guide for Online Hypertext |
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Graphics and Design Help - Links
These sites feature free Wallpapers, Graphics, Rules and Bullets. And some of the sites will be helpful in understanding everything from good design to how to create your own images. The graphic link immediately below is to reasonably priced software.
Designing Web Graphics - Go here first and download The Web Color Cube |
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Animation Help - Links
If you are considered adding animation to your web site, examine these links. These sites can take longer to load because they have so many animations. And there also are sites that will teach you how to make your own. Hint: you probably need some software to do it great. The graphic link immediately below is to reasonably priced software.
Wylie's Smileys |
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Audio / Sound Help - Links
Add sound or music to your web site. These links might help you, especially if you examine the code they use for different purposes. And you might find a few nice tunes. Generally MIDI (.mid) files compress to smaller size and transmit faster over the Internet than do WAV (.wav) files with the same content.
The Largest Free Sound Archive |
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Validator Software Help - Links
Once you have put in all the HTML codes, it is important to "validate" your codes. Check out these sites and you might discover errors that should be corrected. Extra or incorrect codes can show up differently in different browers so check your work.
Doctor HTML |
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Counter Sources Help - Links
The ability to see how many people have visited your site is unlike any other kind of advertising medium. Your site may be commercial or fun, but somehow knowing you were found AND how many times, does make it all seem worth it. We found free and fee (not free) counters. Just check the "rules" carefully before you sign on to a service. Indeed, your ISP might provide this service?
World 1000 |
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Guest Book Sources Help - Links
YOUR GUEST BOOK: it is always nice to see who has been to your site. You can use a Guest Book to also keep track or create mailing lists. Look at these links and you might add a guestbook to your site?
LPage Guestbook - one of the more popular - now GuestWorld |
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Promote Your Site Help - Links
The next step is to get your site listed with the search engines so people can find you. The links here offer both free listings or a more deluxe package you will pay for. Take time to read the information on how the search engines list you, each one has different rules for listing your site.
Submit - It |
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Advanced Topics Help - Links
These links are to more advanced topics like Java (at least three flavors), Scripts, CGI and such. That comes later, but these will get you into the "lingo" and on your way. The first one even takes you to Germany! If you have a "comprehensive" ISP service, check with them first on their available CGI services and such if that is where you "store" your web pages.
Java Repository |
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Other Helpful Links
As we browsed the web looking for sites, we found some below that really do not fit exactly into the other sections neatly, but they might eventually be helpful as you build that wonderful web site for the World to visit.
Various Helper Applications The graphics below are links to the respective sites.
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